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Speaker |
Occupation |
Date |
Title of Speech |
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| 1st |
1892 |
Rev. Myron W. Reed |
President, National Charities Association |
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| 2nd |
1893 |
George E. Howard |
Professor of History |
May 31, 1893 |
"The American University and the American Man" |
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| 3rd |
1894 |
John Casper Branner |
Professor of Geology |
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"The Education of the Scientific Man" |
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| 4th |
1895 |
John M. Stillman |
Professor of Chemistry |
May 29, 1895 |
"Specialization in Education" |
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| 5th |
1896 |
Melville B. Anderson |
Professor of English Literature |
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"Hamlet: the Transition from the Contemplative to the Active Life" |
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| 6th |
1897 |
Oliver P. Jenkins |
Professor of Physiology and Histology |
May 26, 1897 |
"the Passing of Plato" |
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| 7th |
1898 |
Walter Miller |
Professor of Classical Philology |
May 25, 1898 |
"The Old and the New" |
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| 8th |
1899 |
Fernando Sanford |
Professor of Physics |
May 24, 1899 |
"The Scientific Method and its Limitations" |
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| 9th |
1900 |
William H. Hudson |
Professor of English Literature |
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"The Culture of Today and the Literature of Tomorrow" |
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| 10th |
1901 |
George M. Richardson |
Professor of Organic Chemistry |
May 29, 1901 |
"The Gospel of Work" |
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| 11th |
1902 |
Augustus T. Murray |
Professor of Greek |
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"A Parallel and a Lesson" |
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| 12th |
1903 |
Ewald Flugel |
Professor of English Philology |
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"Our Anniversary is One of Hope" |
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| 13th |
1904 |
Orrin Leslie Elliot |
Registrar |
May 18, 1904 |
"The Higher Education and Progress" |
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| 14th |
1905 |
Charldes D. Marx |
Professor of Civil Engineering |
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"General Education of Engineers" |
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| 15th |
1906 |
Benjamin I. Wheeler |
President, University of California |
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"Orthography" |
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| 16th |
1907 |
Harris Weinstock |
Sacramento merchant & Trustee, State of California |
May 22, 1907 |
"The Nation's Greatest Need of the Hour" |
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| 17th |
1908 |
Ernest Carrol Moore |
Superintendent of Schools, Los Angeles |
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| 18th |
1909 |
James Parker Hall |
Dean, University of Chicago Law School |
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"Business and the Nation" |
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| 19th |
1910 |
William F. Slocum |
President, Colorado College |
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"The nation's Guarantee of Personal Rights" |
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| 20th |
1911 |
Rev. Charles David Williams |
Bishop of Michigan |
May 22, 1911 |
"The New Patriotism and its Appeal to the College Graduate" |
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| 21st |
1912 |
David P. Barrows |
Professor of Political Science, University of California |
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"Possible Influences of the Panama Canal on our National Characters" |
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| 22nd |
1913 |
David Starr Jordan |
University President |
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"The Conquest of Europe by America" |
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| 23rd |
1914 |
John Casper Branner |
University President |
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| 24th |
1915 |
David Starr Jordan |
University Chancellor |
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"the Visionary in History" |
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| 25th |
1916 |
David Starr Jordan |
University Chancellor |
May 22, 1916 |
"Twenty-Five Years of Stanford" |
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| 26th |
1917 |
John M. Stillman |
University Vice President |
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"idealism and National Policy" |
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| 27th |
1918 |
John L. McNab |
U.S. District Attorney of San Francisco |
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"A Call to Arms" |
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| 28th |
1919 |
Paul Shorey |
Professor of Greek, University of Chicago |
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"America First" |
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| 29th |
1920 |
Stephen S. Wise |
American Reform Rabbi and Zionist Leader |
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"The University and the Nation: a Study in Relationships" |
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| 30th |
1921 |
Ray Lyman Wilbur, '96 |
University President |
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| 31st |
1922 |
Alonzo E. Taylor |
Director, Food Research Institute |
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"Obligation of the University to the Student" |
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| 32nd |
1923 |
Robert A. Millikan |
Director, Norman Bridge Laboratory, California Institute of Technology |
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| 33rd |
1924 |
Henry Suzzallo, '99 |
President, University of Washington |
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| 34th |
1925 |
Herbert C. Hoover, '95 |
U.S. Secretary of Commerce |
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| 35th |
1926 |
Ray Lyman Wilbur, '96 |
University President |
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"The Volunteer" |
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| 36th |
1927 |
Ray Lyman Wilbur, '96 |
University President |
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"Pacific Neighbors" |
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| 37th |
1928 |
John H. Finley |
Editor, New York Times |
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"Planetary Thinking" |
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| 38th |
1929 |
Ray Lyman Wilbur, '96 |
University President |
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| 39th |
1930 |
Robert Eckles Swain, '99 |
Acting University President |
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| 40th |
1931 |
William W. Campbell |
President Emeritus, University of California |
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| 41st |
1932 |
James Thomson Shotwell |
Professor of History, Columbia University |
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"Peace" |
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| 42nd |
1933 |
Ray Lyman Wilbur, '96 |
University President |
June 19, 1933 |
"Is this a new Renaissance?" |
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| 43rd |
1934 |
Ray Lyman Wilbur, '96 |
University President |
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"Self Navigation" |
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| 44th |
1935 |
Herbert C. Hoover, '95 |
Former U.S. President |
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| 45th |
1936 |
William F. Durand |
Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering |
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"Problems" |
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| 46th |
1937 |
Ray Lyman Wilbur, '96 |
University President |
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"Coasting" |
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| 47th |
1938 |
Arthur Howland Young |
Consulting Professor of Industrial Relations |
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| 48th |
1939 |
Ray Lyman Wilbur, '96 |
University President |
June 18, 1939 |
"Human Hopes" |
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| 49th |
1940 |
Ray Lyman Wilbur, '96 |
University President |
June 16, 1940 |
"Wheels" |
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| 50th |
1941 |
Charles A. Beardsley, '06 |
Former President, American Bar Association |
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| 51st |
1941 |
Lou Henry Hoover, '98 |
Former First Lady |
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| 51st |
1942 |
Monroe E. Deutsch |
Vice President and Provost, University of California |
June 14, 1942 |
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| 52nd |
1943 |
Ray Lyman Wilbur, '96 |
University Chancellor |
June 13, 1943 |
"The Human Family, Inc." |
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| 53rd |
1944 |
Henry R. Luce |
Editor, Time, Life, and Fortune magazines |
July 2, 1944 |
"The Human Situation" |
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| 54th |
1945 |
Isaiah Bowman |
President, Johns Hopkins University |
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| 55th |
1946 |
Ordway Tread |
Editor & Director, Harper & Brothers; Chairman, New York City Board of Higher
Education |
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| 56th |
1947 |
Lee A. DuBridge |
President, California Institute of Technology |
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| 57th |
1948 |
O.C. Carmichael |
President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching |
June 13, 1948 |
"The Role of the Educated" |
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| 58th |
1949 |
J.E. Wallace Sterling, '38 |
University President |
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| 59th |
1950 |
Lester Bowles Pearson |
Secretary of State for External Affairs, Canada |
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| 60th |
1951 |
Eugene Meyer |
Chairman of the Board, Washington Post |
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| 61st |
1952 |
Clark Kerr |
Chancellor Designate, University of California |
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| 62nd |
1953 |
Sir Percy Spender |
Australian Ambassador to the United States |
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| 63rd |
1954 |
Robert C. Swain, '28 |
Vice President, American Cynamid Co. |
June 13, 1954 |
"The Human Tortoise and the Scientific Hare" |
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| 64th |
1955 |
Dag Hammarskjold |
Secretary General, United Nations |
June 19, 1955 |
"The Nation and the World" |
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| 65th |
1956 |
N.A.M. Mackenzie |
President, University of British Columbia |
June 17, 1956 |
"A Vision of Greatness" |
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| 66th |
1957 |
J.E. Wallace Sterling, '38 |
University President |
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| 67th |
1958 |
J.E. Wallace Sterling, '38 |
University President |
June 15, 1958 |
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| 68th |
1959 |
J.E. Wallace Sterling, '38 |
University President |
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| 69th |
1960 |
Barnaby C. Keeney |
President, Brown University |
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| 70th |
1961 |
James D. Zellerbach |
Former U.S. Ambassador to Italy |
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| 71st |
1962 |
Edwin H. Land |
President and Director of Research, Polaroid Corp. |
June 16, 1962 |
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| 72nd |
1963 |
Lauris Norstad |
Retired General, U.S. Air Force; President, Owens-Corning |
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| 73rd |
1964 |
Earl Warren |
Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court |
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| 74th |
1965 |
David Elliot Bell |
Administrator, Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of State |
June 13, 1965 |
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| 75th |
1966 |
Monroe E. Spaght, '29, AM '31, PhD '33 |
Managing Director, Royal Dutch Shell International |
June 12, 1966 |
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| 76th |
1967 |
John Fischer |
Editor in Chief, Harper's Magazine |
June 18, 1967 |
"Four Choices for Young People" |
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| 77th |
1968 |
J.E. Wallace Sterling, '38 |
University President |
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| 78th |
1969 |
W. Willard Wirtz |
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor |
June 15, 1969 |
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| 79th |
1970 |
Charles H. Percy |
Illinois Senator |
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| 80th |
1971 |
Eric Sevareid |
CBS Washington Correspondent |
June 13, 1971 |
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| 81st |
1972 |
James Reston |
Vice President, New York Times |
June 11, 1972 |
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| 82nd |
1973 |
John Usher Monro |
Director of Freshman Studies, Miles College; Former Dean, Harvard College |
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| 83rd |
1974 |
Archibald Cox |
Professor of Law, Harvard; Former Watergate Special Prosecutor |
June 16, 1974 |
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| 84th |
1975 |
Daniel P. Moynihan |
Professor of Government, Harvard |
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"Can the System Work?" |
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| 85th |
1976 |
Carla A. Hills, '55 |
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
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| 86th |
1977 |
John Hope Franklin |
Professor of History, University of Chicago |
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| 87th |
1978 |
Donald Kennedy |
Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Adminsitration; Professor of Biological Sciences |
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| 88th |
1979 |
Andrew Young |
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations |
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| 89th |
1980 |
Lewis Thomas |
President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
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| 90th |
1981 |
Warren Christoper, '49 |
Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State |
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| 91st |
1982 |
Sandray Day O'Connor, '50 |
U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
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| 92nd |
1983 |
George P. Shultz |
U.S. Secretary of State; Professor of Public Policy |
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| 93rd |
1984 |
Richard W. Lyman |
President, Rockefeller Foundation |
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| 94th |
1985 |
Mario Cuomo |
Governor, New York |
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| 95th |
1986 |
Ted Koppel, '62 |
ABC-TV "Nightline" host |
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| 96th |
1987 |
Thomas "Tip" O'Neill |
Retired Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives |
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| 97th |
1988 |
Robert C. Maynard |
Editor and President, Oakland Tribune |
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| 98th |
1989 |
Garry Trudeau |
Cartoonist, Doonesbury |
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| 99th |
1990 |
Marion Wright Edelman |
President, Children's Defense Fund |
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| 100th |
1991 |
John W. Gardner, '35, AM '36 |
Haas Centennial Professor of Public Service; Founder, Common Cause; Former U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare |
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| 101st |
1992 |
Kirk Varnedoe, AM '70, PhD '72 |
Director, Department of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art |
June 14, 1992 |
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| 102nd |
1993 |
Dianne Feinstein, '55 |
United States Senator |
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| 103rd |
1994 |
Stephen Carter, '76 |
Professor of Law, Yale University |
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| 104th |
1995 |
William Perry, '49 |
U.S. Secretary of Defense |
June 18, 1995 |
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| 105th |
1996 |
Mae Jemison, '77 |
Founder and Director, Jemison Institute for Advanced Technology in Developing Countries
at Dartmouth College |
June 19, 1996 |
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| 106th |
1997 |
Stephen Breyer, '59 |
U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
June 18, 1997 |
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| 107th |
1998 |
Ted Koppel, AM '62 |
Anchor of ABC's "Nightline" |
June 14, 1998 |
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| 108th |
1999 |
Robert Pinsky, AM '67 |
Poet |
June 13, 1999 |
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| 109th |
2000 |
Kofi Annan |
Secretary General, United Nations |
June 14, 2000 |
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| 110th |
2001 |
Carleton (Carly) S. Fiorina, '76 |
Chairman and CEO, Hewlett Packard Co. |
June 17, 2001 |
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Streaming Video |
| 111th |
2002 |
Condoleeza Rice |
National Security Advisor |
June 16, 2002 |
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Streaming Video |
| 112th |
2003 |
Alejandro Toledo, AM '72, AM '74, PhD '92 |
President of Peru |
June 15, 2003 |
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Streaming Video |
| 113th |
2004 |
Sandra Day O'Connor, '50 |
U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
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| 114th |
2005 |
Steve Jobs |
Co-Founder and CEO, Apple Inc. |
June 12, 2005 |
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| 115th |
2006 |
Tom Brokaw (undergraduate) |
Anchor, NBC Nightly News |
June 18, 2006 |
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Streaming
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| 115th |
2006 |
Vartan Gregorian, '58, PhD '64 (graduate) |
President of the Carnegie Corporation, former president of the New York Public Library
and Brown University |
June 17, 2006 |
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Streaming Video |
| 116th |
2007 |
Dana Gioia |
Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts |
June 17, 2007 |
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| 117th |
2008 |
Oprah Winfrey |
Global media leader and philanthropist |
June 15, 2008 |
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| 118th |
2009 |
Anthony M. Kennedy |
Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court |
June 14, 2009 |
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Streaming Video |
| 119th |
2010 |
Susan E. Rice, '86 |
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations |
June 13, 2010 |
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Streaming Video |
| 120th |
2011 |
Felipe Caldern Hinojosa |
President of Mexico |
June 12, 2011 |
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Streaming Video |
| 121st |
2012 |
Cory Booker, '91, AM '92 |
Mayor of Newark, NJ |
June 17, 2012 |
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Streaming Video |
